Thread by @kamilkazani

Those who dismiss this move as an "inconsequential" personal initiative of an MP, miss the point here. It gives a good indication of the current spectre of political views within the central elite and apparatchiks in Moscow. That is more or less a consensus among the Tsar's Court

https://twitter.com/IlvesToomas/status/1534609923337818113

The entire Tsar's Court in Moscow holds or parrots opinions within this spectre. There are indeed forces which might disagree or while agreeing in principle think that the Tsar went too far. Consider the recent conflict between the Communist leadership (=Tsar's Court) and ...

... the regional Komsomol leadership (= not the Tsar's Court). The latter while agreeing in principle with the "defense of Donbass" argued that Putin went so far.

Such views exist in Russia but they don't exist or are not expressed at the Tsar's Court

If you want to find some sanity and reason among the Russian politicians you should look elsewhere than at the Tsar's Court where slavishness and conformism precede over any other considerations. There is no one at the Tsar's Court to talk with

Furthermore if you want strategic rather than tactical deescalation you must aim to dismantle the Tsar's Court as an institution. It's not enough to change Putin for a "liberal" (=radical Russian ethnonationalist who criticizes Putin's regime for not being ethnically pure enough)

The problem is not so much in Putin as in slavish obedience to the Tsar. Ergo, the problem can not be solved by changing Putin to another Tsar. The position of a Tsar simply gives so much power that all of his vices, delusions and dark sides will be amplified millionfold

The position of a Tsar gives so much power and has such a corrupting effect that anyone holding it will abuse their unconstrained power in every way possible. Ergo, it is the position of a Tsar and a political system that allows for it that must be dismantled